Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 40
While Jason was gazing at her, a peacock strutted forward, and took his stand at the old woman's side.
Who acts: Jason, peacock · What happens: gaze, strut, take · To what, where: stand, side
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason, peacock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 gazing | mark |
| 2 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gazing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gazing | aux |
| 4 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 strutted | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gazing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazing | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 peacock | det |
| 9 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strutted | nsubj |
| 10 | strutted | strut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 10 strutted | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 strutted | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 stand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 side | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 woman | case |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 strutted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past · progressive | Jason | at schoolmaster | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strut | participle | a peacock | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | a peacock not said here | Jason's stand | the old woman's side | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent stand=Theme at side=Asset |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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